Combination holder and lifter



F. W. BARRON.

COMBINATION HOLDER AND LIFTER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 6,1920.

I 1,373,703. Patented Apr. 5, 1921.

I 7 J I 56 j UNITED STATES EREDERIoK WARREN BARRON, or wrnnirne, r/mNrroBA, CANADA.

COMBINATION HOLDER AND LIFTER. I

Specification of Letters Patent.

atented Apr. 5, 1921.

Application filed July 6, 1920. Serial No. 394,085.

ed certain new and useful Improvements in.

Combination Holders and Lifters, of which the following is the specification.

The invention relates to improvements in combination holders and lifters and the object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, inexpensive but durable, convenient and eflicient device for fastening to the cover of a crock or such like and which is provided with a handle permitting of the safe and easy lifting of the crock cover.

With the above objects in view the invention consists essentially in the arrangement and construction of parts hereinafter more particularly described and later pointed out in the appended claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawing in which Figure l is a sectional view through the cover of the crock with my invention attached to the knob and in side elevation.

Fig. 2 is a detailed vertical sectional view through the knob.

Fig. 8 is a perspective view of the combination holder and lifter.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of a modified form of the invention.

In the drawing like characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the several figures.

This invention is particularly designed for attachment to the earthenware cover 1 of a crock 2. These covers are comparatively heavy and. unwieldy and they are at present provided with a comparatively small centrally disposed knob 3 formed as part of the cover and usually contained within the plane of the cover and presenting an outstanding head 4 and an undercut circumscribing groove 5. The knob is relatively small and as the weight of the cover is considerable and the finger grip provided more or less awkward it is not convenient for one to lift the cover 03 the crock.

The combination holder and lifter which I have invented is particularly designed for attaching to the knob and allowing of the safe and convenient lifting of the cover as occasion requires.

The device is formed from a single piece of wire bent centrally on itself to provide a loop 6. After forming the loop the wire ends are wound around one another for a predetermined distance and arched to form a handle 7. After the handle has been formed, theends of the wire are bent in opposite directions and in a plane at right angles to the handle and are both curved to form-a circle. One one 8 of the wire is connected by an eye 9 to the loop and the other end is passed through the loop. The circle formed bythe ends of the wire is of a size consistent with the knob to which it is to be attached. v

When the holder, as shown in Fig. 3 is to be placed on the cover the free end of the wire is slipped back through the loop to allow the wire ends to enter the groove 5 at the knob. Afterward the free end 10 of the wire passed through the loop is pulled tight through the loop by using a pair of pincers and then bent back to form a fastening eye similar to that indicated by 9.

()bviously when the fastening is complete the device is firmly attached to the knob" and the handle is in an upstanding position and can be conveniently grasped to allow one to easily lift the cover or replace the same.

In the modified form shown in Fig. i the wire is bent in the manner previously described to provide the loop and the handle and the two curved ends. The end 8 however instead of being hooked to the loop is passed through the loop and formed into an upstanding end eye 11.

The other end of the wire terminates in a second end eye 12 opposing the eye 11 and the two eyes are releasably fastened together by a bolt 14: and nut 13.

This modified form is placed on the knob by passing the ends of the wire into the groove 5 and is then fastened by inserting the bolt and tightening up the nut.

In this modified form the loop is turned in the plane of the handle instead of in'a plane at right angles to the handle as in Fig. 3.

What I claim as my invention is 1. The combination with aycover having a knob and with the knob presenting an undercut circumscribing groove, of a combined holder and lifter presenting a band passing around the knob and within the groove and a handle above the knob and passing from side to side of the band.

2. The combination with a cover having a knob and with the knob presenting an undercut circumscribing groove, of a combined holder and lifter presenting a wire ring the ring.

3. As a new article of manufacture, a combined holder and lifter formed from a single piece of wire bent centrally of" its length to provide a loop and having the wire ends twisted around one another for a predetermined distance adjoining the loop and arched to form a handle and the free ends of the wire turnedinto a plane at right angles to the handle and oppositely bowed and with the end of one of the wires passed through the loopand the end of the other of the wires terminating adjoining the end of the latter wire.

4:. As a new article of manufacture, a combined holder and lifter formed from a single piece of wire bent centrally of its length to provide a loop and having the wire ends twisted around one another for a predetermined distance adjoining the loop into an eye caught on the loop and the other 7 end of the wire passed through the loop and adapted to be bent back for fastening purposes.

5. The combination with a cover having a knob, of a combined holder and lifter therefor comprising a band portion capable of being 'releasably secured around the knob. 6. The combination with a cover having a knob, of a combined holder and lifter therefor comprising a handle member provided with a band portion capable of being releasably secured around the knob.

Signed at Winnipeg, this 18th day of. June, 1920. a

l FREDERHIK WARREN EARRON. In the presence of GERALD S. ROXBURGH, E. E. NnLsoN. 

